Dr. Sagen Zac-Varghese

Actually, what surprised me is there are countries where they have low dairy intake, but actually the fracture risk is lower.

And I think there's a lot we don't understand about dietary intake and fracture risk and how that correlates.

So if you have a diet that has dairy, has protein, has green leafy vegetables and fish and meat, you have all the vitamins and minerals that you need.

But there'll be people who don't have that.

There'll be people who are malnourished or have eating disorders or who have absorption problems.

And those people would probably need to take supplements.

I have a vitamin D spray on my shelf and I sometimes remember to take it and most I don't remember to take it.

But when I remember, I take a few sprays because then I know it's in and it's done and I work a lot.

So I very rarely see the sun.

I know I'm vitamin D deficient without measuring it.

Definitely, yeah.

You don't want to take too much calcium or too much vitamin D.

So normally the body takes what it needs and you excrete the rest.

But if you overwhelm your body's ability to do that, what would happen is you get too much calcium and too much phosphate and you get calcium phosphate product, which causes hardening of the blood vessels.

So that isn't a good thing.

So I've definitely seen it where people take too much vitamin D and that leads to a high calcium.

I think our bodies look after us in a really great way.

The people I see in clinic tends to be people who are older, 70s, 80s, 90s even.

So I think even if we don't think about our bodies, our bodies generally take care of ourselves.

So we don't have to overthink it.